1. Do Now: take out Vocab Unit 4 notes!

2. Objective: to thoroughly understand Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
November 21, 2017
Objective: to thoroughly understand Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Opening: Chicken Soup, finish vocab
Work Period/Closing: Sir Gawain

3. Homework
Heads up: exam on Beowulf/Sir Gawain after Thanksgiving break!
Vocab assignments due Thursday, Nov 30th
Quiz Friday, Dec 1st

4. Chicken Soup

5. Vocab Unit 4 cont’d

6. Hurry and take out your annotations!

7. Gisarme
(Used by the Green Knight and Sir Gawain)

8. The Green Chapel
(Where Sir Gawain meets the Green Knight)

9. Pentangle/Green Girdle
(Pentangle on Sir Gawain’s shield)
Five virtues: generosity, fellowship, chastity, courtesy, charity Or
Five wounds of Christ?
(Sir Gawain tied the girdle around his waist)

10. Fill in the blanks...Sir Gawain & Bertilak’s Castle
November: travels alone to find the Green Knight, stays in castle for shelter
Bertilak and his lady greet him, as well as old, unnamed woman (not mentioned in textbook)
Bertilak proposes bargain: he will hunt and give Sir Gawain his prey, Sir Gawain will give whatever he earns during the day. That night, Lady Bertilak tries to seduce Gawain!!! He only kisses her as to not offend his hostess.
Bertilak: deer Gawain: kiss
Bertilak: boar Gawain: 2 kisses
Bertilak: fox Gawain: 3 kisses
*On the 3rd day, Lady Bertilak offers Sir Gawain a gold ring. He refuses, but accepts her green and gold embroidered girdle, which she says will keep him free from all physical harm. Sir Gawain does not mention this to Bertilak.*

11. Fill in the blanks...The ending
The Green Knight = Lord Bertilak, transformed by magic
He knew what Sir Gawain had done all along in the castle
Elderly lady at Bertilak’s castle = Morgan le Fay
All a planned scheme to test Arthur’s knights/Sir Gawain’s values